[Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: I just got this message this instant

[Philip Gough]

RIP

On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 10:40 AM Williams, Joanna <
jwilliams at exchange.tc.columbia.edu> wrote:

> I am very much saddened to hear of Jay Samuels' death. Jay and I were good
> colleagues. Over the years we regularly found ourselves at the same
> meetings, speaking in the same sessions. In the 1960s we paired up to
> debate Ken Goodman and Frank Smith. In the late 1990s we were both on the
> National Reading Panel . We became fast friends.  Jay was a great scholar
> and an excellent teacher. His enthusiasm was inspiring. I will miss him.
>      Joanna Williams
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 12:44 PM P Pearson <ppearson at berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
>> From Jay Blanchard, who lives in the Phoenix area and has visited Jay
>> with some regularity].
>>
>> Jay Samuels passed this AM of COVID.
>> I am saddened by this development, especially with COVID as the proximal
>> cause. As many of you know, Jay, along with RHF members Bob Dykstra and
>> John Manning, was an influential mentor for me when I was at Minnesota as a
>> grad student and a new professor.  I have such vivid memories of so many
>> things Jay did and said.
>>
>> Haunting (in both an eerie and a very sweet sense) that Jay died on the
>> very day when many are memorializing the contributions of Ken Goodman.
>> Although Jay and Ken help what many of us thought were diametrically
>> opposing views of early reading development and pedagogy, the two shared an
>> alma mater (both got their doctorates at UCLA) and an abiding respect for
>> the contributions of the other to the study of reading processes and
>> pedagogies.
>>
>> David
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>> P. David Pearson
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>> Graduate School of Education
>> University of California, Berkeley
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